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Definition of Immaculate

1. Adjective. Completely neat and clean. "Their spic red-visored caps"

2. Adjective. Free from stain or blemish.

3. Adjective. Without fault or error. "An immaculate record"

Definition of Immaculate

1. a. Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure.

Definition of Immaculate

1. Adjective. Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immaculate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Immaculate

1. Without stain or blemish; spotless; undefiled; clear; pure. "Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate." (Denham) "Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain." (Shak) Immaculate conception, the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. Immac"ulately, Immac"ulateness. Origin: L. Immaculatus; pref. Im- not + maculatus, p. P. Of maculare to spot, stane, fr. Macula spot. See Mail armor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immaculate

imitatively imitativeness imitativenesses imitator imitators imitatorship imitatour imitatours imitatress imitatresses

imitatrix imitatrixes imiterite immaculacies immaculacy immaculate (current term) immaculately immaculateness immalleable immanacle

immanacled immanacles immanacling immanant immanants immanation immanations immane immanely immanence

Literary usage of Immaculate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"THE immaculate CONCEPTION. The dogma of the immaculate Conception of the Virgin had a struggle for recognition through six centuries, before it was defined ..."

2. The Methodist Review (1855)
"THE DOGMA OF THE immaculate CONCEPTION. 1. "Letters Apostolic of our Most Holy Lord, Pius IX., by Divine Providence Pope, concerning the Dogmatic Definition ..."

3. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"An even more instructive instance of the development of theological doctrine is to be found in the history of the dogma of the immaculate Conception of the ..."

4. Bibliotheca Symbolica Ecclesiae Universalis: The Creeds of Christendom, with by Philip Schaff (1919)
"THE PAPAL DEFINITION OF THE immaculate CONCEPTION ov TBS VIRGIN MAKY, 1854. ... Tlie first step towards the proclamation of the dogma of the immaculate ..."

5. Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699 by Louise Phelps Kellogg (1917)
"Every day, he interposed for that end both the merits of Jesus Christ and the intercession of the Virgin immaculate, for whom he entertained a singular ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Fathers of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and of the immaculate Heart of Mary at Zabern (1900); Marist Brothers at St. Put (as home for the emeriti. ..."

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